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    # AMERICA The Players See all the sad-faced people having fun at Vegas. They are gamboling, if you want to spell it that way, at a rollicking game of Twenty-one, or Blackjack, and they should be philosophical and smile merrily, reflecting that after all this is only a game. Behind them, one-armed bandits march row on row, hospitable put-and-maybe-take devices formally addressed as slot machines. In Las Vegas, Nevada, are manifold gambling casinos. In this typical one alone, since it opened in 1952 at the Sands Hotel, some 8,000,000 souls have pitched woo atT3a^?Σ≤mcky1M pitche^pMlce and using 65,000 decks of cards^-v ^'By the way, if you should think of going to Las Vegas for your health, the air is healthfully dry, the sky smiles sunnily, and tourists leave $170,000,000 there per year. Sure, some / take more than they leave?╟÷that's what/ Vegas is all about. ?╟≤ Photograph by Frank R<W. ^Jhe Saturday Eventa|f May 26,1956 P JgT